11.08.06

10 Reasons to be Cheerful

Posted in good things, patriotism, politics at 9:49 am by Hanne Blank

Or at least guardedly optimistic:

  1. My mayor’s gonna be the new Governor, and dammit, I think that’s a pretty good thing.
  2. My current governor’s gonna need a new job, and dammit, I think that’s a really good thing.
  3. Ben Cardin also won, in Maryland, and while I kinda felt that voting for the Senate race was one of those moments where you hold your nose and pick the one who makes you puke the least, I’m damn glad we got a Dem in there.
  4. Nancy Pelosi’s new job. HOLY MOLEY! How exciting is that?
  5. Rick Santorum’s new job, whatever it may end up being. (Dare we hope he will become a spokesperson for K-Y Jelly?)
  6. The people of South Dakota are a sensible, sane people. Reproductive freedom cookies for everyone! (Surely these are made by the Girl Scouts?)
  7. Ditto the people of Arizona. (They get delicious gay cookies, which are, as everyone knows, fabulous.)
  8. And Missouri, for voting as they did on their stem cell research bill. (Stem cell cookies? Maybe we’d better stick with fabulous gay cookies for Missouri too.)
  9. Props to my home state of Ohio for electing Sherrod Brown.
  10. The smell of democracy in the morning. Seriously, I know that nothing’s any better than it was yesterday when I went to bed, we’re still nipple-deep in Bush’s shit and it’s going to take a long hard slog to even start to put some of it to rights. But the fact that things went as well as they did yesterday gives me hope. By things going as well as they did, I don’t even mean the Democratic victories so much as the fact that they were permitted to happen, that the system either a) isn’t so completely corrupt and Bu$hco doesn’t have such an eldritch Cthulhu-tentacled pervasive grip on the whole system that the elections could be completely stolen or rigged across the board (which was a very real fear for me and many other people) or b) even Bu$hco has some shred of decency that prevented it from doing the great big bad ugly Wrong Thing that so many of us worried they might be doing.Don’t get me wrong. I’ll still be watching like a hawk. I’ll still be doing activism, and writing letters, and running my mouth, and writing books with the intent of changing the world for the better. (So should you.) But I feel a little less despondent about my country this morning than I did last night. And that’s something.

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